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Responding To 2 Criticisms

TRANSCRIPT: Hello. Dr. Keith Smith with you – Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Thank you for joining us in this video blog series. We receive a lot of criticism from hospital apologists on social media. And 2 of the most common are that we are not open 24/7, and the other...

Good guy vs. bad guy brokers

TRANSCRIPT: Hello. Dr. Keith Smith with you – Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Thank you for joining us in this video blog series. What an incredible response we had to our video blog, “Don’t trust your broker.” I don’t think a lot of people actually watched the video blog...

From Lima to OKC

Hello. Dr. Keith Smith with you – Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Thank you for joining us in this video blog series. This past week, we operated on a man from Lima, Peru who desired a cochlear implantation. He was a great candidate for this and he came to our facility...

Goodbye, Dr. Francis Davis

  Hello, Dr. Keith Smith with you – Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Thank you for joining us in this video blog series. “He who takes the king’s shilling is the king’s man.” I learned this phrase from Jeff Deist, the president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute...

Don’t feed the trolls

  Hello. Dr. Keith Smith with you – Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Thank you for joining us in this video blog series.   I would like for everyone to think about a healthcare journey as a bridge. And there are guides to help each patient cross this bridge. The...

Coding Insanity

Hello. Dr. Keith Smith with you – Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Thank you for joining us in this video blog series. As ICD-10 looms near in the next few days, I have some thoughts about the coding insanity in this country and what it has led to. In the late 1980s and...

FMMA Conference recap by John Flo

  Ten Benjamin Rush Institute Student Leaders attended the 2015 Free Market Medical Association’s (FMMA) Conference in August. Several wrote posts highlighting a specific speaker or message from the Conference. We hope you enjoy Mr. John Flo’s enthusiastic report...

Why you shouldn’t trust a broker

Hello. Dr. Keith Smith with you – Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Thank you for joining me in this video blog series. I have an employee here at the Surgery Center who used to work at an insurance brokerage and she told me the following story: A man came in and expressed...

Big hospitals’ response to our online pricing

Hello. Dr. Keith Smith with you – Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Thank you for joining us in this video blog series. I’d like to talk a little bit today about what the response has been of big corporate healthcare to our having posting prices online. I mentioned before...

Giving Back To The Community

Giving back to the community is a phrase you hear and read often. I always get a chuckle when I hear that some so-called not-for-profit hospital claims to give back to the community in various ways.

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Oklahoma’s Top Surgeons & Anesthesiologists

Specialists and surgeons from all of Oklahoma’s top healthcare systems choose to operate here.

  • Anesthesiology
  • Ear, Nose and Throat (Otolaryngology)
  • Foot and Ankle
  • General Surgery
  • Neurosurgery
  • Gynecology
  • Ophthalmology
  • Oral and Maxillofacial Plastic Surgery
  • Orthopedics
  • Reconstructive Plastics
  • Urology